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My America: On the strangeness of pledging allegiance to the flag

Financial Times 04 Jul 2026
An irreconcilable sense of alienation and belonging has been one of America’s many gifts to me ....
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The Strange History of the Word Equal

The Atlantic 03 Jul 2026
Every person carries the same weight ... [From the November 2025 issue ... If nothing else, I hope that the strange, contentious history of equal might help us reframe our political disagreements in a more transparent and constructive way.
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Inside the strange side hustle of teaching AI to think like a lawyer

Business Insider 02 Jul 2026
She gets the work through Mercor, a company that hires subject-matter experts to train artificial intelligence systems ... One week, she's inventing a lawsuit over oil and gas trading; the next, she's writing an asylum case.
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The Strange Necromancy Case of Libo Drusus in Ancient Rome

Roman Empire Times 02 Jul 2026
In September AD 16, while Rome was normally occupied with the Roman Games, the Senate was summoned to consider a case described as a matter of grave public danger ... Before the trial reached its end, Libo was dead by his own hand ... The phrase is vivid.
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The strange history of Czech cactus hunters – and why some see themselves as Robin ...

The Conversation 30 Jun 2026
Brazil is a well-known centre of the illegal bird and pet trade, but allegations of an attempted theft of more than 100 cactus plants and some 2,000 seeds were perhaps more surprising ... Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade.
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Haile: The strange death of the ‘shootist’ retold

Seguin Gazette 27 Jun 2026
Clay Allison, the two-gun time bomb who called himself a “shootist,” died June 30, 1887, not from a bullet but under the wheels of his own wagon ....
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The Strange American State Fair

The Atlantic 27 Jun 2026
The U.S ... So perhaps it was only a matter of time before the president erected his own Potemkin village. the Great American State Fair, where almost nothing is what it pretends to be ... The Department of Defense pavilion. Lawren Simmons for The Atlantic.
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Red card, THAT jumper and a work permit wrangle: The strange Aston Villa career of Jean Makoun

Yahoo Daily News 27 Jun 2026
"Makoun’s late lunge at DJ Campbell prompted a straight red card on 70 minutes, and the former Lyon star’s needlessly premature departure summed up a strangely subdued second-half performance from Villa."Advertisement ... The end.
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The strange Mauricio Pochettino outburst that is cause for concern for USA ahead of World Cup knockouts

Yahoo Daily News 26 Jun 2026
In this case, it's best to start at the end of 15 strange and slightly disorienting minutes in the Los Angeles Stadium underbelly ... Mauricio Pochettino uncharacteristically lost his cool after the USA were beaten by Turkey (Reuters).
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The strange link between AI hallucination and creativity

The Hindu 25 Jun 2026
The ... The trouble is that the same dial governs hallucinations ....
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The Strange, Explicable Appeal of Train Dog

The Atlantic 25 Jun 2026
It’s the head of a dog superimposed on the body of a train!. You may have recently seen a mutant creature chugging through your feed, a hybrid beast, like a centaur or sphinx, uniting the head of a dog and the body of a train.
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The Strange Logic of World Cup Ticket Prices

Foreign Policy 22 Jun 2026
Aging stars and local fans dominate as Europeans stay home ... .
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